Daydreaming brain A rat engaged in self-referential processing. The image also shows the default mode network as revealed by fMRI. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/Shih Lab, Long-Evans rat image provided by Tzu-Hao Harry Chao) When was the last time you daydreamt? Paying no particular attention to the outside world, engaged in introspection or memory recall, your
The rapid rise of transformative agreements between publishers and research consortia is providing extra impetus to the Electrochemical Society’s long-standing ambition to “Free the Science” Into the open: During The Electrochemical Society’s Free the Science Week, which this year runs on 2–9 April, more than 180,000 articles across its entire digital library will be free
Cait Cullen reviews The Milky Way: an Autobiography of our Galaxy by Moiya McTier Me, myself, Milky Way Our galaxy as imagined by artist AnnaMarie Salai. (Courtesy: AnnaMarie Salai) Like almost every astronomer, I have looked to the stars and dreamt of objects far larger than I can realistically comprehend. But never in my deepest
Big and small: illustration of how a tiny Bose–Einstein condensate has been used to simulate the expansion of space that occurred moments after the Big Bang. (Courtesy: Campbell McLauchlan) Unfortunately for the field of cosmology, there is only one universe. This makes performing experiments in the same way as other scientific fields quite a challenge.
This short video filmed at the Photonics West 2023 meeting features Martin Ruge from Hübner Photonics, who introduces the company’s C-WAVE product family of tunable and lockable laser light sources, which operate from 450 nm in the blue to 3.5 μm in the infrared. Ruge, who is global product manager of the C-WAVE tunable laser
Ultrafast laser camera: a, the kerosene flame studied in this work; b, optical signals induced when nanoparticles such as soot or PAH molecules in the flame interact with the nanosecond laser-sheet; c, schematic of the LS-CUP imaging system. (Courtesy: Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Peng Wang, Florian Bauer, Yide Zhang, Dag Hanstorp, Stefan Will and Lihong V
Ireland. We’re having a moment. In the Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh translated our elliptical “chat” into silences and irrationalities that allowed the whole world to understand the melancholy in Hiberno-english symploce. With the blue-eyed boy Paul Mescal as an avatar of young Irish men, global audiences have come to see unflattering GAA shorts and
It’s not entirely right to say that literature is starved for complex, chaotic, endearing LGTBQIA+ characters. Starved in the mainstream, sure. We are just now emerging into a post-Love, Simon popular universe in which young queer people of today do just a little bit more than come out to their Oscar-Award-Winning-Actor-Portrayed parent and embark on
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Family and place make us. Whether the relationship to where, and who, we come from is complicated or not, all poets must reckon with these two fundamental things that shape who we are, our worldviews, and how we learn to love. For Chicanx poet José Olivarez, Chicago and his Mexican family are his bedrocks and
Whether or not you’ve watched season 2 of The White Lotus, Mike White’s anthology series, you’ve witnessed Jennifer Coolidge’s frenzied intonations onboard a yacht: “These gays, they’re trying to murder me!” Coolidge plays Tanya, a wealthy woman who finds herself at the center of a conspiracy to murder her for her money. The executors of
Let’s face it: half of our favorite stories wouldn’t exist if the characters just went to therapy. The Trojan War would’ve lasted nine years, and Bruce Wayne would own a normal basement with a ping pong table. Part of the reason so many stories resist therapy is that 1) mental illness has been unrecognized and
You Can’t Come Back If Your Memories Are Missing Chloe N. Clark Share article Accidental Girls by Chloe N. Clark When I see Halley in a bar, years and years past when she disappeared, I know it’s her so quickly and completely that it makes me gasp. The Halley of her thirties is leaner than
A century ago, Robert Lopez’s grandfather Sixto left Puerto Rico for Brooklyn. Puerto Rico would have been a U.S. territory for decades at that point. “In theory, Sixto wasn’t an immigrant,” Lopez writes in his new book Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, “but of course he was.” Dispatches from
This essay, by Addie Tsai, is the first in Electric Literature’s new limited essay series, Both/And, which centers the voices of trans and gender nonconforming writers of color. For the next fifteen weeks, on Thursday, EL will publish an installment of Both/And, with the series running through spring and into Pride Month. At a time
Freestyle and Dance iCon Stevie B has just released hit newest single “Take It All Back” featuring multi-platinum recording artist Pitbull remixed by DJ Sama. A new era of dance music was born when Miami native Stevie B’s first independently released single “Party Your Body” hit South Florida’s glittering club scene in 1987. After years
There has been plenty of handwringing among some over whether it’s too soon to write pandemic literature, but these five books answer that question with a firm no. Each is set in the lockdown days while being about so much more than the pandemic. Louise Erdrich The Sentence Harper, 2021 Louise Erdrich’s most recent novel
Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Jodi Sibilia. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s